Events
Events
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Medicine Grand Rounds, Eric Klett, “Dietary Fat — Impact on the Development of Chronic Metabolic Diseases”
Consumption of dietary fat has been the focus of debate for more than 50 years. Ancel Keys’ diet-heart hypothesis changed the way Americans eat and as a result has left us with significant unintended consequences. Dr. Klett will review the history of the diet-heart hypothesis, the recently discovered unpublished data refuting the diet-heart hypothesis, and … Read more
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McAllister Heart Institute Seminar Series: Kristy Red-Horse, PhD. Coronary Artery Development
Speaker: Kristy Red-Horse, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, Stanford UniversityTopic: Coronary Artery Development: Transcriptional Regulation of Blood Flow Guided Behaviors
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Medicine Grand Rounds, Rumey Ishizawar “Autoimmunity Induced by Cancer Immunotherapy”
Immune-related adverse events are an unintentional side effect of immune checkpoint inhibitors used for cancer immunotherapy. Immune checkpoint inhibitors upregulate the immune system to prevent tumor evasion and promote destruction of tumor cells. These immune checkpoint inhibitors are effective as noted by the expanding number of FDA-approved drugs in this class and number of indications. … Read more
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McAllister Heart Institute Seminar Series: Nenad Bursac, PhD, “Engineering Excitable Tissues for Experimental Studies and Regenerative Therapy”
Speaker: Nenad Bursac, PhD, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Duke UniversityTopic: Engineering Excitable Tissues for Experimental Studies and Regenerative Therapy Presentation Preview: In this talk, I will present our recent progress on engineering of human excitable tissues using primary, stem cell-derived, and genetically engineered cell sources. I will first describe scalable methodology for engineering of functional … Read more
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Medicine Grand Rounds, Balfour Sartor and Edward Barnes, “Post-Operative Crohn’s Disease: Current and Future Management”
Rescheduled from January 4 -- In this lecture, Drs. Sartor and Barnes will summarize an evidence-based approach to the management of post-operative Crohn’s disease, and describe the future landscape based on novel molecular and microbial predictors of risk of recurrence. This topic is clinically important because the majority of patients with Crohn’s disease eventually undergo … Read more
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McAllister Heart Institute Seminar Series: Didier Stainier, PhD, “Cardiovascular development and regeneration in zebrafish”
Speaker: Didier Stainier, PhD, Director of the Max Planck Institute for Heart & Lung Research in Bad Nauheim, GermanyTopic: Cardiovascular development and regeneration in zebrafish
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McAllister Heart Institute Seminar Series: Wolfgang Bergmeier, PhD, “Platelets at the vascular interface: finding the right balance between too little and too much activation”
Speaker: Wolfgang Bergmeier, PhD, Associate Professor of Biochemistry & Biophysics, UNCTopic: Platelets at the vascular interface: finding the right balance between too little and too much activation Presentation Preview: Platelets are small anucleated cells that constantly patrol the cardiovascular system to preserve its integrity and prevent excessive blood loss where the vessel lining is breached. … Read more